There was a time when the line between typewriters and word processing software was a bit fuzzy. [Poking Technology] found a Xerox 6040 which can’t decide what it is. It looks like a typewriter but ...

Someone cloned Microsoft Word, so I had to try it on Linux and Mac. It’s a 1:1 alternative - and open source.

I saw a discussion about whether writers used to write by hand before word processors appeared, and I wrote a reply, but ...

Word processors are an indispensable tool on any PC. Every day we need to write all kinds of documents and reports, whether for our studies or in our working day. No wonder that one of the classic ...

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Before we go any further, an invitation: On Thursday, April 23, at 1 p.m. ET, my colleague Jared Newman and I will be cohosting “The AI ...

Writing tools are intensely personal choices -- for some people. Most people make do with the corporate standard, Microsoft Word, and many are even happy with it. But some of us have to be different, ...

Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

The Zerowriter Ink is a portable device with an E Ink display that’s meant to offer a distraction-free writing experience from anywhere. But it’s not an ePaper tablet like the reMarkable Paper Pro.

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When it comes to word processing, most people—and most businesses—still think of Microsoft Word. Whether it's a résumé or an essay, it's most likely to come as a .docx file, the universally recognized ...

Do people prefer stories written on a word processor?Stories written by AI are sometimes preferred over those written by ...